On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:42:45PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:> Hi!> > I recently posted a module for twofish which implements the algorithm in> assembler (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106210815132365&w=2)> > Unfortunately the assembler used is masm. I'd like to change that. Netwide> Assembler (nasm) is the assembler of my choice since it focuses on> portablity and has a more powerful macro facility (macros are heavily used> by 2fish_86.asm). But as I'd like to make my work useful (aim for an> inclusion in the kernel) I noticed that this would be the first module to> depend on nasm. Everything else uses gas.> > So the question is: Is a patch which depends on nasm likely to be merged?> > For more information on "what is nasm":> http://nasm.sourceforge.net/doc/html/nasmdoc1.html#section-1.1

nasm is i386-only.

gas is part of binutils and supports lots of target CPUs: I think thefirst part of a new gcc architecture backend is the machines descriptionso that gas can assemble code for it.